Sounding toy.



L. KNQET.

SGUNDING TGY.

(Application flied Aug. 9, 1899.) I

(N0 Model.)

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New ra'rns AENT SOUNDING TOY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 650,048, dated May 22, 1900,

Appllca-tlon filed August 9, l 8 9 9.

In all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEVI KNOTT, a citize of the United States, residing at Altoona, in

'the county of'lilair and State of Pennsylva- 'the cap or blank cartridge having a lateral vent or passage for the exploded gases, a socket for a handle or cane,-and a plunger having a suitable knob for removing the exploded shell from its'seat.

In the drawing forming a part of this specification the figure is a sectional elevation of a cane with my improvement connected therewith, the cane being represented in elevation and the ferrule or hollow cylindrical attachment being shown in section.

1 is a cane or handler 2 is a metallic hollow cylinder, cheaply pro duced of cast-iron to give the same weight, having a central bore or passage, in the outer extremity olf which is a seat for receiving a cap or blank cartridge 3 and in the other ox- Serial No. 726,726. (No model.)

plunger is normally held out of operative position by means of a spring 8.

In operation a cap or cartridge having been exploded in its seat in the usual way; the plunger isoperated through knob 6 to remove the shell of the cartridge or cap.

Having described my invention, what: I

claim is-- I A blank-cartridge exploder involving the combination of a hollow metallic cylinder haw" ing acap or cartridge seat and a lateral vent or opening in advance of, said seatfor theescape of exploded gases, a plunger for remeyin g the shell of the cartridge, arranged te'fre ciprocate in the hollow cylinder, having aflat oral handle, and a spring for normally holding the plunger away from the cartridge-seat and lateral vent, snbstantially'as described. In testimony whereof I afix my signatitre in presence of two witnesses.

LEVI KN 0T1;

Witnesses:

A. V. DIVELY,

J. K. PATTERSON. 

